17

"Shit! Captain!"

"Con!" Jack walked into the room and glanced at Bunny, "You OK sweetheart?"

"Yes Cariad, just a little shaken by this" she replied still hugging the wall and Jack took in her stance, his eye sliding to her arm for a moment before back to the men.

"What the fuck are you doing?"

"The trophies, the Rodeo trophies" Jerry supplied the answer, "They have finally decided to meter out justice for their father's exclusions."

"He won fair and square!" Drawer Opener snarled.

"And we always agreed with that Skippy" Jack snorted, the young man suddenly lunging at Jack with a gun appearing from his pocket.

Bunny swung the rifle up, firing from the hip and she was as surprised as everyone else when she actually hit the man, flinging him back into the bookcase. Jerry gaped as Mathew snatched the gun from Gun Waver and Harris swung the pistol he had been hiding into the head of the third one.

Bunny stood in shocked silence as Jack stepped forward, his own weapon trained on the two not hit and the one who was howling from the buck-salt that had hit his crotch froze as Jack cocked the gun and frowned down at him. He retrained his gun as Harris took over the waving part.

"You know … I don't know what I hate more. The fact you've hurt Jerry or that my love had to do something violent in her pretty frock!" Jack snarled, "But I am not happy about this at all guys!"

"Mama, the bub is in the barn, the other two in the attic" Bunny said as she turned to Gloria, "You and Francine go get Quinn and young Kyle. The boys have this under control, I wanna cuddle my children."

"Children?" Gun Waver frowned, "what kids?"

"We have three children" Jack snarled as Bunny fled the room, "Three little children, the youngest still a little toddler and you came in here to what ... kill us all?"

"Wait…I don't understand."

"No? The Sherriff is on his way, he can help you with that!" Jerry barked, rising unsteadily to follow Bunny to the children, knowing the little princess would be beside herself.

Once the Sheriff arrived Jack went up to find young Kyle standing by the door to the room with the shotgun, nodding as he stepped aside to let him in and Jack settled to look at the children, asleep with Bunny.

All the goodness in the universe contained on one sofa.

Bunny stirred and smiled up at him as he leaned in to kiss her, little Quinn grumbling as she shifted to deepen the kiss.

"Hey" Jack soothed, the little man sniffling back to sleep.

"Well, all the bluster of more security … they are arriving now" Jack snorted, Talk about irony."

"Are they gone?" Bunny whispered, "I still don't understand what happened."

"Ten years back, there was a huge scandal in the Rodeo Circles. It was found that their father was drugging the horses. Looks like they decided to gather his confiscated trophies and return them to him for his bloody sixtieth birthday!" Jack huffed, "they didn't realise their brother was taking it a step further now. I don't know. Maybe they did."

"Their poor mother" Bunny sighed and Jack smiled at her, that sweet part of her so desirable as she lay there stroking Quinn's hair.

"So then missus… of all the things you have hidden in your shirts… a shot gun?" he joked and she giggled as she agreed it was quite a stroke of madness.

"Is Jerry OK? I know he would hate for me to fuss, he keeps leaving the room. Is he still bleeding?"

"No love, he's upset. I think the thought of you all being in danger is making him physically ill. Can't say I blame him, this was not a good night." Jack sighed, "Not a good night at all."

"You need anything?" Jack asked as he reached out to touch her face.

"I just needed you home, you are. It's OK now" she smiled, "Maybe Quinn off me bladder?"

Jack grinned as he lofted their sack of potatoes, kissing a hot little cheek and carrying him through to his little nursery where he sniffled into the cool sheets and settled. Bunny followed and slid her arms around Jack from behind, "I am so tired I old sleep for a week but the nightmares might keep that from me."

"I know" Jack grimaced, his own 'what if' scenarios already running though his mind and he turned to hug his beloved tightly, thanking whatever gods were listening for protecting his precious family.

"Are you alright?" Mathew asked as he entered to find them like that, "I will stay with the two horrors, go on. Go take some time. No doubt we will have little sleep tonight, Dad is already on the whiskey even with his head. I don't know."

"I think we will do whatever we have to in order to get though the night, maybe the dawn will bong perspective" Bunny reached out and took Mathew's hand, "We all did good. In the end … we all did good."

"Sez Annie Oakley!"